Widening or narrowing the characters also widens or narrows the spaces between words and letters. Because word processors usually create a left margin by printing spaces, you may need to change the number of characters on a line to keep the margins correct if you change widths. For example, a left margin of five pica characters is the same as one of six elite characters.

Special Effects and Emphasis

The Apex80 offers two ways of emphasizing parts of your text and also allows you to use underlining, superscripts, and subscripts. Most of these features can be controlled only by software commands, but many application programs can produce them if they are properly installed.

Emphasized and double-strike modes, both of which can be chosen with SelecType, slow the printer down slightly to produce bolder text. In emphasized mode, the Apex80 prints each character twice as the print head moves across the paper, with the second slightly to the right of the first. This produces darker, more fully-formed characters.

In double-strike mode, the Apex80 prints each line twice, with the second slightly below the first. This makes the characters bolder. While NLQ is in use, however, double-strike is ignored because NLQ characters are already formed by two passes of the print head.

This is normal NLQ printing.

This is emphasized NLQ printing,

Superscripts and subscripts are valuable for such purposes as printing footnote numbers or parts of mathematical formulas, and the underline mode provides an automatic way of underlining fully any piece of text.

It underlines spaces, subscripts, and superscripts without a break.

The example below shows underlining with text and combined with superscripts and subscripts in a mathematical formula.

Apex80 Printer Features

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